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Haiti earthquake: Photos

September 02, 2010 11:09 a.m. EST

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A powerful earthquake rocked Haiti on January 12, damaging not only
buildings and roads but the foundation of the Western Hemisphere's poorest
nation, which has struggled under decades of coups, corruption and natural
disasters. Photographers have turned their lenses to the devastation.

JONATHAN TORGOVNIK/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

U.N. forces help distribute food to displaced Haitians on Friday, January 15.

JONATHAN TORGOVNIK/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

Bodies are dumped into mass graves Friday, January 15, in Titanyen, Haiti.

SHAUL SCHWARZ/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

A man cries outside a makeshift hospital Friday, January 15, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

SHAUL SCHWARZ/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

Helicopters fly over the heavily damaged Port-au-Prince Cathedral on Friday, January 15.

SHAUL SCHWARZ/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

A man carries an elderly woman who needs medical attention Friday, January 15, in downtown Port-au-Prince.

SHAUL SCHWARZ/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

Hundreds of bodies pile up outside the main morgue of Port-au-Prince's general hospital on Friday, January 15.

JONATHAN TORGOVNIK/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

An injured Haitian is carried on a stretcher Thursday, January 14, in Port-au-Prince.

JONATHAN TORGOVNIK/REPORTAGE FOR CNN

A destroyed building leans over a street Thursday, January 14, in Port-au-Prince.